What book(s) are you reading right now?

[IndigoGolem]

I read Foundation and Empire a couple months ago, and then read Foundation and Second Foundation this month. Now i'm reading the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, and i'm also a few chapters into Exoseed. I have Dune on hold at the library so i'll read it at some point in the near future.

[Cyber_Cyan]

I'm reading BRAINWYRMS by Alison Rumfitt ! I love body horror so it's right up my alley.

I'm also reading manga series: ERASED and Angel Sanctuary. Both are really good, though Angel Sanctuary is a bit confusing at times and not as much focused on technology and video games as I thought it'd be, given the premise. The art is MAGICAL though, it's impressive.

I plan on reading some non fiction after my novel, I have an essay about psychiatry that I bought with a gift card, maybe I'll give it a try !

[Kiko!]

It's so frustrating wanting to read Everything and having a hard time getting just a bit of reading done at a time, when I really want to read all evening :P it's a weird experience as I've been so used to being able to plough through books.

oh my goodness someone gets me! I have bookish friends so I always compare myself with their speed of reading and how much books they read. And it's like man if i didn't stop reading in favor for short form content, I would have been speeding through books at light speed just like them.

I also tend to be performative about my reading which is crazy. I read only when in public and rarely read for myself unless I watch other people read on yt XD

[wolfkitty42]

oh my goodness someone gets me! I have bookish friends so I always compare myself with their speed of reading and how much books they read. And it's like man if i didn't stop reading in favor for short form content, I would have been speeding through books at light speed just like them.

I also tend to be performative about my reading which is crazy. I read only when in public and rarely read for myself unless I watch other people read on yt XD

I used to read constantly as a kid and eventually ended up doing much less of it as I sort of "grew out" of it. What I've realized is my tastes have just shifted, and I need to keep looking for new stories I am interested in reading.... And, also, that yeah, as I've grown older and had more freedom, consuming youtube and stuff takes up much more of my time. I don't really want it to, so I'm trying to shift to being more intentional about what I watch and incorperating more reading into my time!

I've been on a kick of reading old Shojo manga for a while, but it's sort of paused right now because a middle schooler found out I liked JJBA and asked if I wanted all of it. And I was like, what? And I was like Yes, and then he sent me a folder with. All of the Jojos manga. LMAO???? Yay!!!
I'm working my way through Jojolion right now, which is fun. I also finished listening to a Purple Haze Feedback audiobook someone put on Youtube, and I'm super duper excited for when it'll come out with an official english translation!!!
Once I finish Jojolion and catch up to the Jojolands I'm planning to read the rest of the Vampire Knight series because I read the first one and it turns out my library has the rest  of them!! I also found a copy of Hana Kimi, which I hear is good and I WANT to read despite the fact I can't focus on anything other than Jojos right now. Help.

I also read a fair bit  of fanfiction, of course.... Which, isn't really published work, but I think it should be taken into account more often when we're thinking about how often we read!

[lakes]

I'm the middle of reading "The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion" by Gary Taubes, "The Spanish Anarchists" by Murray Bookchin, and Das Kapital as an audiobook. The 2nd of which is on the Spanish Civil War.
I learned some interesting things from them. For example, in the 1st one, they mention that some physics professors were able to tell that cold fusion probably wasn't legit because the experiment used hydrogen and palladium and they'd have their classes where they'd use palladium to filter out hydrogen without any major accidents.
I'm also thinking of starting another Discworld audiobook for something a little more lighthearted. I wish I got into Discworld sooner, but back when I was a teen & 1st heard of the series, I was worried that I "didn't have the attention span" for reading.

[Cyber_Cyan]

I'm just done with "Brainwyrms", it was so visceral, I love this kind of body horror. It reminded me of Castration Movie and the book by Andrew J White "You Weren't Meant to be Human", though both were released after Brainwyrms. Really, gimme more gruesome visceral fleshed out trans horror, I can't get enough.

I've just started reading "Blackouts" by Justin Torres. I'm only at the beginning but it seems right up my alley.

Also started to read the manga "Boys Meets Maria" Peyo, only a few pages between classes though.

[noahie]

Right now I'm reading In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake. Blake has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, but I think he's the better writer and way underrated. Lots of violence, but done with such well-developed prose that it is an absolute page-turner. Many of Blake's novels are set in 19th century West Texas, and he writes a lot of outlaw fiction.

I'm also getting through Everyday Saints by Archimandrite Tikhon, which has been great for me growing in my faith.

I was also going through some lectures from Schelling, but haven't touched that in a little while.

Really with my current reading list, I've been going through it a lot more slowly than I'd like. That happens sometimes with me; reading full novels takes a while, and these days I only get through 10-20 a year. I still read a lot, but it's mostly internet stuff like forums, blogs, and online publications. Really, I think that the age of the novel is dying, even if publishing revenues don't reflect that. And quite frankly, I think that's a good thing. Literary prestige is overrated and rooted in classism, so I'm all for increasing popularity of web serials and the like.